﻿2 HYDROPHYLLACEiE (Wright). \_Codon. 



DisTRiB. Species 2, one extending into Tropical Africa. 



Corolla 12 lin. long, white and purple « ... (1) Royeni. 



Corolla 6 lin. long, yellow (2) Schenckii. 



1. C. Eoyeni (Linn. Syst. ed. 12, 292); whole plant about 1 ft. 

 high, pubescent and furnished with straight spines 3 lin. long ; 

 stem terete, up to 4 lin. in diam. ; leaves ovate, cordate or rounded 

 at the base, more or less sinuate, fleshy, 2 in. long, 1 in. wide ; 

 petiole 9 lin. long ; calyx-lobes linear, obtuse, 6-10 lin. long, -}-l lin. 

 broad ; corolla white, spotted or striped with purple ; tube 6 lin. 

 long; lobes 6 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate, rounded at the apex, 

 midribs conspicuous ; filaments subulate, 7 lin. long ; anthers 2 lin. 

 long, versatile ; ovary globose ; style filiform. Andr. Rep. t. 325 ; 

 Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. ScJiult. 389 ; Brege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 

 Documente, 93 ; A.BG. in DC. Prod. x. 589 ; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. 

 X. 247. C. aeuleatum, Gcevtn. Fruct. ii. 88, t. ^b,Jig. 7. 



South Atrica : without locality, Forster .' 



Central Region: Ceres Div. ; at Yuk River, near Yuk River Hoogte, 

 Burchell, 1237 ! 



Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; near Spektakel, MacOwan and 

 Bolus, Herh. Norm. Afr. Aust.,SO') ! between Verleptpram and the mouth of 

 the Orange River, under 1000 ft., Drege ! Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Bokkeveld 

 Flats, between Oliphants River and Kamos, Zeyher, 12Q3 ! 



Also in Hereroland. 



2. C. Schenckii (Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 

 173) ; herbaceous or suffruticose, erect, 12-15 in. high, densely 

 covered with glandular hairs, yellowish when young, white Avhen old, 

 spiny ; leaves lanceolate, acute, li in. long, 7 lin. broad, margins 

 irregularly undulate ; petiole 9 lin. long ; flowers solitary, shortly 

 pedicelled. or subaessile ; calyx 10-12-partite, hairy ; corolla yellow, 

 campanulate, sparingly hirsute; tube 3 lin. long; lobes 10-12, 8 lin. 

 long ; filaments unequal ; style bifid ; capsule ovoid, shortly rostrate. 

 Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 218. C. Dregei, E. Meyer in Brege, Zwei 

 Pflanzengeogr. Bocumente, 92, 174, name only. G. luteum, Marloth 

 Sf Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. ix. Beibl. 20, 3, name only ; Engl. Jahrb. 

 X. 248 (hctea). 



Western Region : Great Namaqualand ; Gubnb, Schenck, 17. Little 

 Namaqualand ; between HoUegat River and the Orange River, 1000-1500 ft., 

 Brege ! 



Extending into Tropical Africa. 



Order XCII. BORAGINEiE. 



(By C. H. Weight.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite, very rarely polygamous by abortion, 

 regular, more rarely irregular. Calyx inferior, sometimes persistent; 

 tube campanulate or cylindrical, sometimes very short ; lobes 5, 

 rarely fewer or 6-8, longer or shorter than the tube, slightly imbricate 

 or open, rarely valvate. Corolla funnel-shaped, tubular, salver- 

 shaped, campanulate or rotate, 5- (rarely 4- or 6-qo -) lobed, often 



